SRman's Workbench Blog

That looks very convincing!

 

A few passengers slumped in the seats would really complete the appearance of a late night train running through the suburbs. (But I suppose they might be a bit of a problem in the carriage sidings during daylight hours.) 

I suppose I should add installing passengers to the list of things to do!  

If you are running on dcc your lighting should be conntrolable via your chip if you are on dc, and this is only my opinion, you should be using 5 volt led strips WARM WHITE with a suitable electronic connection. I have done this on dc... it does need soldering.. I also have a couple of circuits... you can stop the train the lights dont go off!

Sorry d00m, I missed your comment until now.

I have wired these strips directly to the track pickups, so no intermediate decoders ... For an underground train I figured there was really no need to be able to switch the lights off. There's no reason why you could not add decoders, apart from expense - for this six car unit, there are already two decoders on board for the DM cars, so four extra decoders would be required.

For modern units with fluorescent lighting, the colours tend to be colder than older units with incandescent bulbs. Even so, many operators and builders have now realised the impersonal feel cold-coloured lighting and cold internal decors give, and are tending to warmer lighting and colours nowadays. With the cheap lighting strips I have used, it is a relatively easy job to swap them over and experiment with effects.

These cheap lighting strips come with the LEDs wired in sets of three with a built in resistor for each triplet. They still come out extremely bright on 12 volts.